What is the impact of MSDs activities on the civilians of United Arab Emirates?
The MSD is one of the major geospatial data providers in the UAE. Topographic data has been always used as an important component in most of the civilian projects such as road constructions, utilities, establishments, explorations. Today homogeneous up-to-date and attribute rich geospatial data that covers the whole country in a very optimal resolution is definitely of prime importance for many other applications in the civilian sector. Other emerging applications such as vehicle tracking , emergency responses and many others requires specific spatial data which is not provided by MSD but exists with other government agencies. The civilian sector would benefit tremendously if these data are made available to the public. However this requires institutional, organizational and technical issues for data access and sharing to be sorted out. The MSD’s initiatives in establishing a NSDI will address all these issues and hopefully allowing the civilians to make use of the spatial data produce
